“I guess, fundamentally, ‘Hey Kid’ is about watching someone you love self-destruct and and having no fucking clue how to help them,” she said. “In the early stages of addiction, it’s easy as an onlooker to turn a blind eye—to make excuses for the erratic behavior or write it off as something else. As it begins to consume the person, in this case manifesting itself in the form of paranoia, violent behavior and complete emotional absence, it becomes a little more difficult to deny. There were nights I avoided answering my phone because I was terrified it would be someone calling with news that something terrible had finally happened.”